Portrait and abstract still life photographer Arnold Abner Newman, born New York in 1918; studied art at University of Miami but could not finish course, moving to Philadelphia to work in a portrait photography studio; opened own photographic studio in Florida in 1942; moved to New York in 1946 founding Arnold Newman Studios in 1946 and working as a freelance for Fortune and Newsweek; noted for portrait photography setting subjects in surroundings that refelected their profession.